Today, Neom is a utopian dreama megacity of the future yet to be built in the Saudi desert. In this deeply imaginative novel from the award-winning universe of Central Station, far-future Neom is already old. Sentient machines roam the desert searching for purpose, works of art can be more deadly than weapons, and the spark of a long-overdue revolution is in the wind. Only the rekindling of an impossible love affair may slow the inevitable sands of time.This was superb and Im in awe of Tidhars vision. Hes conjured up a futuristic city that feels simultaneously ultramodern and also run down.The Speculative ShelfThe city known as Neom is many things to many beings, human or otherwise. It is a tech wonderland for the rich and beautiful; an urban sprawl along the Red Sea; and a port of call between Earth and the stars.In the desert, young orphan Elias has joined a caravan, hoping to earn his passage off-world. But the desert is full of mechanical artefacts, some unexplained and some unexploded. Recently, a wry, unnamed robot has unearthed one of the regions biggest mysteries: the vestiges of a golden man.In Neom, childhood affection is rekindling between loyal shurta-officer Nasir and hardworking flower-seller Mariam. But Nasu, a deadly terrorartist, has come to the city with missing memories and unfinished business. Just one robot can change a citys destiny with a single roseespecially when that robot is in search of lost love.Lavie Tidhar's (Unholy Land, The Escapement) newest lushly immersive novel, Neom, which includes a guide to the Central Station-verse, is at turns gritty, comedic, transportive, and fascinatingly plausible. In this long-awaited return to the award-winning world of Central Station, machines roam the desert in search of purpose, amoral geniuses build deadly works of art, and improbable love lasts through the sands of timeCentral Station, one of Tachyons top selling original novels, and won the Neukom, Geffen, Seiun, and Campbell awards, and was also shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke and British Science Fiction AwardsLavie Tidhar, who is based in London, has an international reader audience, and he appears regularly at annual academic and genre conferences in China, Japan, Spain, England, Scotland, and morePromotion at major trade and genre conventions, including the World Science Fiction and World Fantasy conventions; ALA; the Nebula Awards; and Readercon; reviews targeting mainstream U.S., British, and Middle Eastern themed online media Autorid: Lavie Tidhar
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 352, Publishers: TACHYON PUBN, Author: Jane Yolen,Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, ISBN-13: 9781616963880, Date of issue: 2023
From ecstasy to tragedy, with love blossoming shyly, love at first sight and even love borne of practical necessity, this enchanting third volume in the authors World Fantasy Award-winning series celebrates romance in all its glory. Original. This third volume in Jane Yolens World Fantasy Award-winning series brings you passionate treasures and delirious transformations. This bewitching assemblage, with an original introduction from Brandon Sanderson, is an ideal read for anyone who appreciates witty, compelling, and classic romantic fantasy.The Scarlet Circus is a magical collection of love stories, where love is often an act of courage and intelligence. Jane Yolen has a true storyteller's voice.Anne Bishop, New York Times bestselling author of the Black Jewels seriesA rakish fairy meets the real Juliet behind Shakespeare's famous tragedy. A jewelry artist travels to the past to meet a successful silver-smith. The addled crew of a ship at sea discovers a mysterious merman. More than one ignored princess finds her match in the most unlikely men.From ecstasy to tragedy, with love blossoming shyly, love at first sight, and even love borne of practical necessitybeloved fantasist Jane Yolens newest collection celebrates romance in all its glory.Other short story collections by Jane Yolen in the Jane Yolen Circus seriesThe Emerald CircusHow to Fracture a Fairy TaleThe Midnight Circus This new, romance-themed collection from beloved World Fantasy Award-winning author Jane Yolen arrives just in time for Valentine's Day featuring the treasures and tragedies that only love can bringThis collection will appeal to readers of contemporary and period romance, as well as to the readership of Yolen's fantasy, folklore, and fairy tales The Scarlet Circus, the 3rd book in what has become Tachyons award-winning Jane Yolen Fantasy Circus short fiction series, follows The Emerald Circus (fairy tales) and The Midnight Circus (dark fantasy)Marketing plans to include author appearances and bookstore events in the U.S. and the U.K. Autorid: Jane Yolen, Brandon Sanderson
Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read. Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax. In a story that is cosmic, inventive, and sly, multi-award-winning author Lavie Tidhar (Central Station) travels from the emergence of life to the very ends of the universe.Ingeniously constructed and stylistically protean, this seven-course banquet of a novel glistens with the Golden Age of science fiction, even as it nourishes our neurons with a marvelous thought experiment.James Morrow, award-winning author of Shambling Towards HiroshimaDelia Welegtabit discovered two things during her childhood on a South Pacific island: her love for mathematics and a novel that isnt supposed to exist. But the elusive book proves unexpectedly dangerous. Oskar Lens, a science fiction-obsessed mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, will stop at nothing to find the novel. After Delias husband Levi goes missing, she seeks help from Daniel Chase, a young, face-blind book dealer.The infamous novel Lode Stars was written by the infamous Eugene Charles Hartley: legendary pulp science-fiction writer and founder of the Church of the All-Seeing Eyes. In Hartleys novel, a doppelganger of Delia searches for her missing father in a strange star system. But is any of Lode Stars real? Was Hartley a cynical conman on a quest for wealth and immortality, creating a religion he did not believe in? Or was he a visionary who truly discovered the secrets of the universe? Classic science fiction meets Dianetics in this mysterious tale of an author who may have started his own religion; his mathemetician daughter; a reading-obsessed mobster; and a hapless young book dealerLavie Tidhar, who is based in London, has an international audience, and he appears regularly at annual academic and genre conferences in China, Japan, Spain, England, Scotland, and morePromotion at major trade and genre conventions, including the World Science Fiction convention; ALA; the Nebula Awards; and Readercon; targeting reviews from mainstream U.S. and British Autorid: Lavie Tidhar
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 352, Publishers: TACHYON PUBN, Author: Meg Elison,Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, ISBN-13: 9781616963903, Date of issue: 2023
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 352, Publishers: TACHYON PUBN, Author: S. A. Crosby, ISBN-13: 9781616963965, Date of issue: 2023
A timely debut novel in the rich, dark Driftwood universe of popular fantasy author Marie Brennan (Memoirs of Lady Trent)Exploring found family, adaptation, and hope in the face of apocalypse, Brennan imbues this high-concept fantasy with a strong emotional core. Fantasy fans will be thrilled.starred review, Publishers WeeklyNational marketing plan to include print and online media. Co-op available. (STARRED REVIEW] Exploring found family, adaptation, and hope in the face of apocalypse, Brennan imbues this high-concept fantasy with a strong emotional core. Fantasy fans will be thrilled.Publishers Weekly (A Best Sci Fi Book of 2020]In this first novel set in award-winning author Marie Brennans incomparable Driftwood fantasy universe, enter a post-apocalyptic realm where the apocalypse has not ended, where fragments of worlds cohere into shifting myths. Yet even as everything fades, Drifters gather to tell conflicting legends of Last, the guidethe one man who seemed immortal, but may have been a fraud.Who is Last?Fame is rare in Driftwoodits hard to get famous if you don't stick around long enough for people to know you. But many know the guide, Last, a one-blooded survivor who has seen his world end many lifetimes ago. For Driftwood is a strange place of slow apocalypses, where continents eventually crumble into mere neighborhoods, pulled inexorably towards the center in the Crush. Cultures clash, countries fall, and everything eventually disintegrates.Within the Shreds, a rumor goes around that Last has died. Drifters come together to commemorate him. But who really was Last? Lying liar, or heroic savior? A mercenary, a charlatan, a legend? A man, an immortalperhaps even a god?About DriftwoodDriftwood is the invention of bestselling author Marie Brennan. Mirroring the world that many people are currently living in, the Driftwood stories chronicle the struggles of survivors and outcasts to keep their worlds alive until everything changes, diminishes, and is destroyed. Driftwood is the first full-length novel in this world. Autorid: Marie Brennan
A lone gunman on a quest to rescue his son in a strange parallel reality, the Stranger rides into the Escapement where he must journey deep into the secret heart of an endlessly shifting, unpredictable and unimaginable world to find what he seeks. Original. A lone gunman on a quest to rescue his son in a strange parallel reality, the Stranger rides into the Escapement where he must journey deep into the secret heart of an endlessly shifting, unpredictable and unimaginable world to find what he seeks. Autorid: Lavie Tidhar
After escaping from a prison lab, two young, modified supersoldiers hide out in a frozen city where they must scavenge for resources and with their days numbered, they are forced to make a terrible choice: their freedom or each other. Original. After escaping from a prison lab, two young, modified supersoldiers hide out in a frozen city where they must scavenge for resources and with their days numbered, they are forced to make a terrible choice: their freedom or each other. Autorid: Nicole Kornher-Stace
"A brilliant bastard." --Cory Doctorow"Comfort, of course, is the last thing that Watts wants to give." --New York Review of Science Fiction Which of the following is true?Peter Watts is banned from the U.S. Watts almost d
Two transgender elders must learn to weave from Death in order to defeat an evil ruler--in the first novella set in R. B. Lemberg's award-winning queer fantasy Birdverse universe "I am staggered by the richness and
Firuz-e Jafari was able to escape the slaughter of traditional blood magic practitioners by immigrating to the city-state of Qilwa. But now a terrible disease is spreading through the city, and Firuz believes it comes from ineptly performed blood magic. Now they must find a way to break a cycle of prejudice in order to survive.
Louis Dumont's modern classic, here presented in an enlarged, revised, and corrected second edition, simultaneously supplies that reader with the most cogent statement on the Indian caste system and its organizing principles and a provocative advance in the comparison of societies on the basis of their underlying ideologies. Dumont moves gracefully from the ethnographic data to the level of the hierarchical ideology encrusted in ancient religious texts which are revealed as the governing conception of the contemporary caste structure. On yet another plane of analysis, homo hierarchicus is contrasted with his modern Western antithesis, homo aequalis. This edition includes a lengthy new Preface in which Dumont reviews the academic discussion inspired by Homo Hierarchicus and answers his critics. A new Postface, which sketches the theoretical and comparative aspects of the concept of hierarchy, and three significant Appendixes previously omitted from the English translation complete this innovative and influential work. Autorid: Louis Dumont
Beneath the waters by the islands of Gelle-Geu, a star sleeps restlessly. The celebrated new starkeeper Ranra Kekeri, who is preoccupied by the increasing tremors, confronts the problems left behind by her predecessor. Meanwhile, the poet Eírgra Liúln, who merely wants to be left alone, is repeatedly asked by their ancestor Sembeír to take over the starkeeping helm. Sembeír insists upon telling Liúln mysterious tales of the deliverance of the stars by the goddess Bird. When Ranra and Liúln meet, sparks begin to fly. An unforeseen configuration of their magical deepnames illuminates the trouble under the tides. For Ranra and Liúln, their story is just beginning; for the people of Gelle-Geu, it may well be too late to save their home.
A beautifully festive special edition hardcover of two of Dickens's touching Christmas talesWith Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens created one of the most unforgettable characters in world literature. The greedy old miser's transformation after a visit from three Christmas spirits is a heartfelt call for kindness - and a joyful celebration of the magic of the holiday season. Also included is The Chimes, a charming, touching, and wonderfully festive New Year's tale that captures Dickens' wit and warmth at their very best.This edition includes the original illustrations from the first edition.- Two true Christmas classics in a festive deluxe edition- With original illustrations by John Leech- 'Dickens's novella has become a festive staple.' The Guardian on 'A Christmas Carol'- 'I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.' Charles Dickens, from the author's preface to the holiday classic- 'There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.' Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
